GABAPENTIN Reviews (GABAPENTIN)Average Rating: 2.7 (150 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare GABAPENTIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR GABAPENTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 3 | Herniated disc, neck and shoulder | Still have pain, horrible itchy rash on hands and feet. Feel off balance | I will be on this med long-term... I can barely function the pain is so bad if I miss a dose, but the rash on my hands and feet make me miserable and it only makes the pain I suffer tolerable. Can't try different medicine because I can't afford it. Just not happy. | F | 47 | 16 months 600 3X day | 8/18/2013 | 2 | Nerve pain | Increased appetite; weight gain | Didn't really do much for nerve pain. Very inconsistent drug -- some days it felt like it helped a little but most of the time it didn't seem to do much. I was on a very low dosage & may have had a more satisfactory experience on a higher dose but I don't want to risk more weight gain so I'm done with this drug. | F | 60 | 45 days 200 MG 2X day | 8/2/2013 | 4 | Help taper off long term benzo use | Some tiredness and sporadic diahrrea. | I used this medication in a very specific context for a short duration of time and I found it very helpful in achieving my goal of getting off benzodiazepines. I was on 4 mg daily Klonopin for 4 years and cut it down to 1 mg very rapidly with the Neurontin. It seemed to help control the little explosions in my head. Looking back I probably way overmedicated with the Neurontin by some days taking 2,400 - 2,600 mg but benzo withdrawals are nothing to play around with. I'm very grateful the doctor suggested doing this since today I am 100% benzo free. | M | 35 | 5 weeks 600 3X day | 7/15/2013 | 3 | back pain; insomnia | Hard to wake up and groggy the next day. | It did help the back pain and it did help me sleep. | F | 60 | 100 mg 1X day | 7/14/2013 | 1 | chronic back pain | One question! Why aren't doctors educated before they make patients sicker than the initial reason for Gabapentin and/or other drugs? FDA???? Please respond! | F | 70 | 6 months 1200mg | 7/8/2013 | 1 | migraines, back/ nerve pain, | Starting at day 3 had an overwhelming need to sleep during day(literally falling asleep at my desk in the middle of typing, etc) restlessness/unable to sleep @ night, brain fog, unable to connect thoughts w/ words, extreme joint pain(after sitting about 15 min-very difficult to get up and walk/bend/squat), loss of appetite, loss of libido/orgasm, zone out a lot, lack of concern of things around me, dizziness, nausea, facial/extremity swelling. Did NOT help with back pain, all over body pain, or migraines! I started at 400mg 2xd and worked up to 3xd. After taking the med for the first mo I did not refill. I started to have palpitations, facial/extremity swelling, joint pain. I apparently forgot that I should've weaned off med. I restarted med after 3 weeks this time titrating up to 3xd in hopes it would work after following directions. Unfortunately, that didn't work. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND | F | 37 | 2 months 400mg 3xd | 6/5/2013 | 1 | Nerve pain | EXTREME diarrhea! Unbelievable. Really unbelievable! | F | 63 | 21 days 300 MG 3X day | 5/6/2013 | 4 | Restless legs | Knocked me out. I slept until 5:00pm the next day.the only reason I woke up was my Mother woke me up.I had dizziness and vomiting. This was my very first time taking this medicine. Don"t know if it helped the RLS. But I finally got some sleep. | F | 50 | 1 days 300mg | 4/27/2013 | 1 | Nerve pain | Didn't help pain. Caused weght gain, bad dreams and mood swings. | M | 50 | 3 weeks 200 | 4/26/2013 | 3 | fibromyaliga | Burning mouth and drowsy! Has helped some with the pain. | F | 67 | 2 weeks 100 | 4/25/2013 | 2 | MIGRAINES | NONE REALLY, DID NOT HELP MIGRAINES OR LEG PAIN, BUT IT DOES DO WONDERS FOR MY HOT FLASHES. | THE ONLY REASON I AM STILL ON THIS IS FOR THE HOT FLASHES, USE TO HAVE THEM EVERY HOUR, NOW ONLY 2 A DAY. I STOPPED FOR A MONTH AND THE HOT FLASHES CAME BACK SAME AS BEFORE. | F | 59 | 1 years 2X day | 4/21/2013 | 1 | NEVER FOR BRAIN BRAIN TUMOR SURG | Sleeping WALK SLOW VERY MEAN EVERY ONE SNAPP ALL TIME. WHEN SOME ONE SPEAK TO ME STOMACE ACE NOTHING BUT GAD ! | F | 53 | 10 months 3 | 4/17/2013 | 1 | nerve pain | Weight gain, about 6 pounds in a month. No brain fog, though. | Didn't do much, if anything, for nerve pain but certainly did make me gain weight. I was at a relatively low dosage (200 mg twice per day); it may have worked better at a higher dose but didn't want to keep gaining weight. | F | 60 | 30 days 100 mg 4X day | 4/1/2013 | 5 | Small Fiber Peripheral Neuropathy | Drowsiness, blurred vision, "zoning out". | Gabapentin was a life saver for me. It completely numbs my symptoms almost all of the time. The side effects are there, but mild compared to my symptoms without the drug. | F | 39 | 2 years 900-3600mg 1X day | 3/12/2013 | 2 | Fibromyalgia | It reduced the pain initially,but quickly wore off.Was extremely tired,over sleeping and gaining weight were nusant side effects. The biggests problems is that the pain relief quit working after about a week. Was not satisfied with this medicine. | F | 56 | 1 days | 2/18/2013 | 3 | Nerve pain | None known for sure. Probable that increased consipation, weight gain and dry mouth are related to this drug. Have had bloody stools probably from ruptured hemmorhoids but this is a known side effect of this drug as well. | Not sure if this drug actually works. Have to take Percocet to get any real relief. | F | 59 | 365 days 100 mg 6X day | 10/31/2012 | 4 | Sciatic Pain | My friend Titus described it best when he called me at 3:00 a.m. while he was at work to say, "Dude, I can't feel my brain!" | This was prescribed for Sciatic Nerve pain. I take it as needed, which is rarely. It's quite effective. In my case, even if I still feel the pain, it makes me not care. 1 pill and I'm giddy, 2 pills and I'm flying high (no pain can touch me), and 3 pills I'm out cold. | M | 34 | 3 years 800mg 3X day | 7/25/2012 | 2 | Numb, tingling, shooting toe pain | None. | Trying at the recommendation of podiatrist, and neurologist he referred me to. Was taking AM and PM. Couldn't tell if it was doing anything in AM, but helped me get to sleep, a little, so it helps with the shooting toe pains as I'm trying to get to sleep, but that's about all. | M | 64 | 5 months 1200 mg 1X day | 5/11/2012 | 3 | chromic headaches | Since starting gabapentin I frequently can't find the words I'm trying to say. I may have increased forgetfulness... but that is natural for me sometimes and a side effect of a different drug I'm taking. Loss of libido I could deal with, but loss of ability to orgasm is a side effect of the gabapentin that I wish I did not have to deal with. | I took it for about 5 months, then quit about 1 year ago because the headaches came back. Started taking it again 3 weeks ago. Both times the headaches decreased substantially, but not completely. Its a trade off between the side effects of Gabapentin with reduced headache all day and no headache when I wake or OXYCODONE AND ACETAMINOPHEN with temporary but complete headache relief and good back pain relief, but the effectiveness reduces with prolonged use of the oxy. | F | 47 | 3 weeks 300 MG 2X day | 11/29/2011 | 2 | Peripheral Neuropathy | Disconnected, tired, strange disturbing violent dreams | Was prescribed this for idiopathic peripheral neuropathy. I only took it 3 days because I couldn't tolerate the side effects. My sleep, even with taking clonopin, was disturbed, like I was "aware" all night and my dreams were strange and violent. Woke up exhausted and it didn't help at all with the nerve pain in my feet. Could be it would have worked if I had been able to tolerate it better and take it for longer. The side effects outweighed any eventual benefits and I was on an extremely lose dose so as to avoid any bad side effects. I had high hopes for this medication and am disappointed. | F | 47 | 3 days 150 mg 1X day | 9/29/2011 |